Alert archive / Texas / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2004
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 14, NWS Corpus Christi, TX
NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Apr 2, 2004, 5:26 PM CST for Webb County, Texas. It was in force for 64 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named.
The facts
- Issued
- Apr 2, 2004, 5:26 PM CST (23:26 UTC)
- Expired
- Apr 2, 2004, 6:30 PM CST
- In force
- 64 min
- Issued by
- NWS Corpus Christi, TX
- Area
- Counties, with a storm outline in the text
County Webb County, TX
The radar
The Corpus Christi radar (KCRP), 179 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 2:25 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 6 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Corpus Christi, TX (KCRP), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 hours before the alert went out and 196 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 891 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -15 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 618 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 31 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 106 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 127 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.3
- Supercell composite
- 2.4
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Corpus Christi, TX wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Apr 2, 4:15 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 2, 4:15 PM CST, 1 hour 11 minutes before
SOUTH TEXAS FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 415 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 .SHORT-TERM (TODAY THROUGH SATURDAY)...APOLOGIZE FOR THE DELAY IN DISCUSSION DUE TO ONGOING WEATHER. WILL KEEP IT BRIEF. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS COASTAL BEND SHOWING SIGNS OF WEAKENING. STORMS HAD TRAINED AND MERGED OVER SOUTHERN GOLIAD AND BEE COUNTIES... DUMPING AN IMPRESSIVE 8 TO 10 INCHES ALONG THE COUNTY LINE. FOCUS OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS IS SHIFTING BACK TO THE WEST. SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS FIRING ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS IN RESPONSE TO SHORTWAVE LIFTING NE OUT OF MX AND INCREASING DIVERGENT PATTERN ALOFT. SKIES OUT WEST CLEARED THIS AFTERNOON ALLOWING FOR SFC HEATING AND DESTABILIZATION. SEE SPC SWODY1 AND SVR TSTM WATCH WHICH HAS BEEN ISSUED TIL 8 PM. POPS WILL REMAIN LIKELY TO CATEGORICAL THRU THE EVENING AS THIS NEXT ROUND ORGANIZES AND MOVES EAST. HAVE HIGHLIGHTED SVR IN ZONES AND LOCALLY HEAVY RAINFALL. && .LONG-TERM (SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY)...A RATHER UNSETTLED WX PATTERN IS EXPECTED FOR MUCH OF THE PD ACROSS SOUTH TX. THE MAIN CLOSED LOW IS EXPECTED TO SLOWLY MOVE EWD FROM THE DESERT SOUTHWEST THROUGH TEXAS AND OKLAHOMA BETWEEN THE WEEKEND AND TUE. THE NEXT COLD FNT IS LKLY TO STALL ACROSS THE SRN PORTIONS OF THE CWFA ON SUN AND MON. INITIALLY THERE WL ONLY BE LOW POPS MENTIONED IN THE FCST GIVEN SOME DRY AIR INTRUSION AND WK FOCUS FOR PCPN. HOWEVER FORCING WL REALLY BEGIN TO INCREASE LATE SUNDAY INTO MON AS THE CLOSED LOW APPROACHES. ISENTROPIC LIFT ALONG WITH EXCELLENT LOW LVL MOISTURE CONVERGENCE AND PERSISTENT UPR LVL DIVERGENCE WL LEAD TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUMEROUS SHRAS/TSRAS. AS A RESULT...WL BUMP UP POPS SIGNIFICANTLY FOR ALL AREAS FOR SUN AND MON. THE CLOSED LOW IS EXPECTED TO GRADUALLY WEAKEN BY WED AS IT GETS ABSORBED INTO THE RDG AXIS OVER THE EAST. HOWEVER...YET ANOTHER CLOSED LOW WL APPROACH THE AREA BY FRI AND INCREASE RAIN CHCS ONCE AGAIN. OVERALL KEPT DAYTIME HIGHS AT OR BELOW NORMAL LVLS GIVEN THE ABUNDNANT CLOUD CVR AND THE LOW LVL ELY FLOW. LIKEWISE WENT WITH MILD OVERNIGHT LOWS FOR THE SAME REASONING. WL LKLY SEE SCA CONDITIONS DEVELOP ON SUN AND MON. && .PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS... CORPUS CHRISTI 64 82 63 78 67 / 80 20 10 30 60 VICTORIA 61 80 61 76 59 / 80 20 20 20 40 LAREDO 68 83 64 80 64 / 60 20 30 40 60 && .CRP WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... SVR TSTM WATCH TIL 8 PM FOR LA SALLE...WEBB...MCMULLEN AND DUVAL COUNTIES. && 76...SHORT TERM 80...LONG TERM
Hazardous weather outlook, Apr 2, 4:30 PM CST, 56 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 430 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 GMZ230-235-250-255-270-275-TXZ229>234-239>247-031200- ARANSAS-BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS- BAYS AND WATERWAYS FROM PORT ARANSAS TO PORT OCONNOR-BEE-CALHOUN- COASTAL WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS OUT 20 NM- COASTAL WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL OUT 20 NM- DUVAL-GOLIAD-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-LASALLE-LIVE OAK-MCMULLEN-NUECES- REFUGIO-SAN PATRICIO-VICTORIA- WATERS BAFFIN BAY TO PORT ARANSAS 20 TO 60 NM- WATERS PORT ARANSAS TO MATAGORDA SHIP CHANNEL 20 TO 60 NM-WEBB- 430 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH TEXAS. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND WILL BEGIN TO WEAKEN OVER THE REMAINING AFTERNOON HOURS. HOWEVER...ADDITIONAL SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL DEVELOP THROUGH THE REMAINING DAYTIME HOURS ACROSS THE RIO GRANDE PLAINS AND PUSH EAST INTO THE COASTAL BEND DURING THE EVENING. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WATCH IS IN EFFECT THROUGH 8 PM FOR LA SALLE...WEBB...MCMULLEN AND DUVAL COUNTIES. SOME OF THESE STORMS MAY REACH SEVERE LIMITS PRODUCING HAIL PENNY SIZE OR GREATER AND WIND GUSTS TO 58 MPH OR GREATER. IN ADDITION HEAVY RAINFALL MAY FALL WITH THESE STORMS THIS EVENING OVER AREAS OF BEE AND GOLIAD COUNTIES WHICH ALREADY RECEIVED WIDESPREAD HEAVY RAINFALL...PRODUCING FLASH FLOODING. RESIDENTS SHOULD STAY TUNED FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION ON THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION TODAY. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY MOISTURE...DAYTIME HEATING AND LOW LEVEL FORCING WILL PROVIDE A CHANCE FOR SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT...MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE AREA. THE CHANCES FOR RAIN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH MONDAY...AS AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST. RAIN CHANCES WILL DIMINISH BY TUESDAY NIGHT...AS THE UPPER LOW MOVES EAST AND SLIGHTLY DRIER AND MORE STABLE AIR MOVE INTO THE REGION. THUNDERSTORMS WHICH DEVELOP ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW SEVERE LIMITS. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS RECOMMENDED TODAY. TR/GW/JR
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 1:54 PM CST, 3 hours 32 minutes before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 154 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 TXZ231>234-240>247-022115- ARANSAS-BEE-CALHOUN-DUVAL-GOLIAD-JIM WELLS-KLEBERG-LIVE OAK-NUECES-REFUGIO-SAN PATRICIO-VICTORIA- 154 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 ...STRONG THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUING TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE COASTAL BEND... AT 154 PM CST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR INDICATED STRONG THUNDERSTORMS STRETCHING FROM BEE COUNTY AND LIVE OAK COUNTY SOUTH TO JIM WELLS COUNTY. THESE STORMS WILL PUSH EAST OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS THROUGH THE COASTAL BEND AFFECTING THE COMMUNITIES OF GOLIAD...BEEVILLE...GEORGE WEST...ALICE...KINGSVILLE...CORPUS CHRISTI...SINTON...PORTLAND...ROCKPORT...REFUGIO AND PORT LAVACA. THESE STRONG THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING SMALL HAIL... WINDS GUSTING UP TO 40 MPH...FREQUENT DEADLY LIGHTNING AND VERY HEAVY RAIN WITH RAINFALL RATES UP TO TWO INCHES AN HOUR. IN ADDITION...SHORT-LIVED FUNNEL CLOUDS WILL BE POSSIBLE. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR THE LATEST WEATHER INFORMATION. 76
Special weather statement, Apr 2, 2:25 PM CST, 3 hours 1 minute before
SPECIAL WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CORPUS CHRISTI TX 225 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 TXZ229-230-239-240-030200- DUVAL-LA SALLE-MCMULLEN-WEBB- 226 PM CST FRI APR 2 2004 ...A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH IS IN EFFECT... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH VALID UNTIL 800 PM CST FRIDAY EVENING. THE WATCH INCLUDES THE COUNTIES OF DUVAL...LA SALLE...MCMULLEN AND WEBB. SOME CITIES INCLUDED IN THE WATCH ARE BENAVIDES...COTULLA...ENCINAL...LAREDO AND TILDEN. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH MEANS CONDITIONS ARE FAVORABLE FOR SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS TO OCCUR IN OR NEAR THE WATCH AREA. SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ARE CAPABLE OF PRODUCING LARGE HAIL THE SIZE OF A DIME OR LARGER...STRONG WINDS OF 58 MPH OR GREATER AND EVEN TORNADOES. EMERGENCY MANAGERS AND SPOTTER GROUPS SHOULD BE PREPARED FOR POSSIBLE ACTIVATION. RESIDENTS ACROSS SOUTH TEXAS SHOULD REMAIN ALERT AND BE READY TO ACT QUICKLY IF THREATENING WEATHER APPROACHES YOUR AREA. IF SEVERE WEATHER THREATENS YOUR AREA...THEN MOVE TO AN INTERIOR ROOM AND LAY DOWN ON THE FLOOR. IF CAUGHT OUTSIDE...LAY FLAT DOWN ON THE GROUND...PREFERABLY IN A DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT. NEVER TRY TO OUTRUN SEVERE WEATHER. STAY TUNED TO NOAA WEATHER RADIO FOR ADDITIONAL STATEMENTS OR POSSIBLE WARNINGS REGARDING THIS DEVELOPING WEATHER SITUATION. 76
The office that day
Everything else NWS Corpus Christi, TX issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 11:59 AM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Aransas, Bee, Goliad | 227 days |
| Apr 2, 12:07 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Goliad | 53 min |
| Apr 2, 1:58 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Calhoun, Goliad | 228 days |
| Apr 2, 2:30 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | CRP | Bee | 60 min |
| Apr 2, 2:44 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Bee, Goliad | 232 days |
| Apr 2, 3:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | CRP | Goliad, Victoria | 232 days |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.